Originally posted by kentay:

ostracizing people or groups of people.

singaporeans can be quite vicious

provincial.. sticking to themselves.

Originally posted by sinicker:

so u mean those gg to schools like the normal nrighbourhood/premier schs against those attending CCH, SCGS, DHS ah?

that's another way to look at it i suppose. So how are the 2 types of singaporeans different?

This is going to all the jeering dudes who told me months ago that the "enthusiasm" would die out in me with regard to local conscripture..

You guys were right. It is becoming quite monotonous after a year of doing the same thing.

Here's to all of you this new year.

Get a job at MSN or microsoft

Let us fine tune our outlooks. Chinese educated does not mean speaking mandarin. Look at many definitions of what English ed is or Chinese ed is in terms of mentality.

Final Cut pro problem 1:

"WHile logging and capturing using my DV camcorder, I am unable to capture any video whatsoever because an error message pops up saying [frames were dropped during last capture attempt]"

FInal cut pro problem 2:

"While capturing video using my hdv video camera, i cannot capture any video whatsoever because there is no preview in the capture window." Note when im using my dv camera, there is a preview and i can see picture.

I need an Aunt Agony for software.. lol

So the only way i can capture effectively is to use Imovie to capture the video file, then work on it using final cut pro.

Qn: Will my video quality suffer because i capture it using Imovie and not final cut pro?

lol this question is soooo random.

Qn. What is the difference between Chinese Educated Singaporeans and English Educated Singaporeans?

Interprete the question however you choose.

being provincial

yes actually final cut ‘pro’ is driving me insane.. esp with logging and capturing errors.

Hello! Is there a thread/forum/group on sgforums for video producers? Specifically ppl who use industrial standard video editing software? Could anyone guide me? mods?

Is there a forum for technical discussion of Video CameraS?

Thanks.

i didn't stay fireice. Went to toilet.. came back to find someone took my NICE spot and it became UBER crowded. lol

Do u know who was the MC fireice? Media corp eurasian artise.. long hair.. looked kinda like catherine zeta jones.

What was the name of that Eurasian WOman in Black who acted as MC last night?

I recall she was on Mediacorp once... but i can't remember

SPecifically the woman who was presenting and a bunch of aussies went loudly

"CAN"T HEAR YOU SPEAK UPPPPPP!!!!!!!"

To which she said

"Your being a tad rude"

and everyone clapped for her????

Or are many WOmen and girls here EXTREMELY dull and BORING?

It's nice to know they're havin fun check out this cool musical

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/armyrillo.html

But seriously, good job to the men there.

THe movie? Its ok... I am disappointed in the lack of character motivational expression in the show.. Like Why the **** does Anakin turn dark side so ****ing abruptly!?!?! And why does Obiwan So EASILY slay his "brother" dude without much remorse or at LEAST conversing with Anakin while they fight. My god.. their fight was the most QUIET fight i've ever seen lol, next to when i see Ken beat up ppl in his tournaments haha. Still, I loved Palpatine goin nuts and cackling away..

btw. YODA, OBIWAN and MACE WINDU SUCKKKOPRRRZZZZ in this show.

But most of all.. ANAKIN SUCKS!! WHY? Coz he's got this WHOLE Aragorn-wannabe thing goin.. almost as bad as Orlando in Kingdom hearts!

You know wot Aragorn should do??

Aragorn: "Hey LEgsie!"
Orlando: "Yeah man?"
Aragorn: "Gimme my FUCKING sword back!"
*Aragorn snatches sword*
Orlando: "Hey man.. wha-"
Aragorn: "And my beard that's mine!"
*Aragorn rips off beard from Orlando"
Orlando: "*gay girly sfx* "Owwwwwwww"!!
Aragorn: "You tryin to be like ME!? YOU SOB!"
*Aragorn punches Legolas!
Orlando: Owwwuch! Booo hoo hoo!
Aragorn: "HEre take back your bow!!"
*Aragorn puts bow in Orlando's hands*
Aragorn: "ANd take ur stupid WIG back and YOUR stupid pointy EARS! GO SHOOT DEER!*

Anakin: "hahaha"
Aragorn: "Wtf you laughin at boy?"
Anakin: "I dunno... just laughin... not at u..."
Aragorn: "Well are u laughin with me? Coz i aint' laughin"

George Lucas: "HEY break it up you 2"

ROFL

Sounds better when i do it in person.

Originally posted by Takumi2eLimit:

upon seeing the title,i thought it's a new movie...

rofl

Originally posted by Ito_^:

i agree.

it would be more effective to be proficient in multiple languages.. like mandarin for us. but there is simply no motivation for student to master their mandarin, and the only reason why we concentrate on english are to understand the lessons taught in school. and for mandarin, for bowing down to china's economical influence. or at least thats the impression, its not even a cultural thing you know. they may say oh its for the culture of chinese in singapore, or to create such an asian identity, etc etc.

its just not going into the local student's mind, all they want to do is to pass their bloody tests and play neopets. who gives a damm about the culture as a whole.

ive been through this before, i can't exactly speak fluent english nor converse well in mandarin. i used to hate chinese, its so hard and it symbolises my constant failures in school. its like.. oh.. chinese.. sure fail one. forget it, i'll skip today's class. and my other subjest follows. even english, i only studied because i needed to pass my english exams during o lvls. you think i LOVE the english language? no way, tell em red coats to go home.

ill live, but its also true im neither proficient in both to being le natural. so i ended up mixing here and there and nowhere in between. unless there is some reason that i feel important to concentrate on one language like a speech or whatsoever.

its a fact, im sort of a product of that failed education system. sort of because i know what is wrong with me, and ill try to improve.. somehow.

Well, I've been studying mandarin all my life and my standard currently sucks. Though it used to be very good when i was younger. My mum taught me and we conversed, I spent lots of time with my Chinese family in Sg and Jakarta. And studying was easier because we read lots of books in classes, we memorized the strokes and the han yu pin yin sounds of the characters. Through basic memorization and usage in life, i spoke it.

In secondary school and JC I lost interest because of the way it was being taught in schools, kind of like what Ito_^: said about just passing tests. The teachers never bugged you to do better than a C6 as long as "you pass can oredi". All the teachers did was give you lists of Mandarin vocab (cheng Yu and Han Zi) and 4-8 letter worded phrases with cool hidden meanings (cheng yu), and they expected you to memorise them without explaining to you how to use such words to begin with. Loud reading was never encouraged nor were class discussions in mandarin. Borrowing books was a "protocol" the teachers got us to do mechanically, regardless of what we read, as long as we could submit a 50/100 passing book report, they were glad.

My only motivations to learn mandarin in high school was at first to integrate myself with local pp, who were mostly Chinese. But with me there was always the racial barrier and narrow mindedness of most locals to commune with different ppl.. So i guess i lost heart, and i said "fcuk attempting to learn it".

Now my motivation to learn it is simple: It's an asset rofl (YEs i ripped that out from an advert). And also because it is a challenge, just like reading and understanding the MADNESS of shakespearen language was for me.

Haha belonging to the country rofl. Wot about my kind? The ones who have been corrupted with white devils blood eh? The last half white we had in politics failed miserably, dave marshall i believe. And most of us are all siding with our white side and fleeing the alleged "uncool" asian sides of us, away in some white country.. all except myself =)

Originally posted by t_a_s:

halo fren, i think every one is raceist in this world, unless u r colourblind.
But the truth is that human being in this world consist of many colours, is human mind set, my fren saw a pretty chinese gal par tho with an indian guy, he said he cannot tahan, where are all the chinese guys? u say this is racist or not, i dont know, indian also human being, so why all this nonsense.

I AM colourblind when it comes to people.

So it was those racist comments ALONE which sparked this whole media thing eh?

Look in case you people have no common sense, let me SPELL IT OUT. I AM STRAIGHT! I get hard ons when i look at girls, girls are beautiful but evil, I HATE MEN, they are bastards mostly.. And this dude who's hitting on me makes my freakin hair stand! So that kinda proves that I am straight!

Ahhhhhhhhhh i see. Man.. I dislike him already, is that normal?

But i wish more people like him existed because then my chances with this cool half filipino/white girl would increase, since she is beautifully tanned =) and no chinese guys would "jio" her hahaha!

But back to topic.. so what iveco posted was the racist's ACTUAL words which caught media attentioN? OR was the whole drama started by a build up of ALL racist things the racist said?

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